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The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist and Stoolpigeon Culture
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The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist and Stoolpigeon Culture, by Joseph Litvak. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 282 pp. $22.95.
A quarter century ago, a graduate student doing some research for a professor in my department at Brown University calculated the book and journal references to "Identity" in the campus library. There were a lot, but more interestingly, the proportion of Jewish references was phenomenal. It is not likely to have fallen since, as any Wikipedia check will surely reveal. There are good reasons, of course, but have Jews more difficulty with identity than, say, Inuits, Armenians, Roma, and other peoples with or without states of their own? Or is it the …
